A woman’s cryptic dying words in a Venetian hospice lead Guido
Brunetti to uncover a threat to the entire region in Donna Leon’s
haunting twenty-ninth Brunetti novel. When Dottoressa Donato calls
the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice
Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido
Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in
responding. ‘They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no’,
Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently-deceased husband,
Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him
Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what
initially appears to be a private family tragedy. They discover
that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples of
contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of
Venice’s water supply and that he had died in a mysterious
motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta’s
obsession with youth crime in Venice, Brunetti is bolstered once
more by the remarkable research skills of Patta’s secretary,
Signora Elettra Zorzi. Piecing together the tangled threads, in
time Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the
woman’s accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the
entire region. But justice in this case proves to be ambiguous, as
Brunetti is reminded it can be when, seeking solace, he reads
Aeschylus’s classic play The Eumenides. As she has done so often
through her memorable characters and storytelling skill, Donna Leon
once again engages our sensibilities as to the differences between
guilt and responsibility.
General
Imprint: |
Arrow Books Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
A Commissario Brunetti Mystery |
Release date: |
September 2020 |
Authors: |
Donna Leon
|
Dimensions: |
178 x 110 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Mass Market
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78746-513-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-78746-513-6 |
Barcode: |
9781787465138 |
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